An Upper Marlboro man who was injured in a car crash Saturday died after allegedly stealing a police cruiser that arrived on the scene of the accident and crashing the cruiser into a telephone pole, police said.

At around 2:30 a.m., patrol officers found a 2006 Dodge Charger crashed on the side of the road near Croom and Baden Naylor roads in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County police said. Nearby they found Kenneth Ray Taylor, 28, of the 15400 block of Mount Calvert Road, who had been injured in the crash.

"He had sustained obvious injuries, he was bleeding from somewhere," said Evan Baxter, a spokesman for the Prince George's County Police Department.

As the officers were inspecting the vehicle to look for other occupants, they said Taylor hopped into one of the cruisers left running on the scene and sped away north on Croom Road in the direction of his home. He only made it about two miles up the road where he crashed again, this time into a telephone pole near the intersection of Mattaponi Road. The crash caused the cruiser to burst into flames, which engulfed the vehicle.

Officers, who had followed Taylor in a second cruiser, tried to extinguish the fire but required help from the Prince George's County Fire/EMS Department. The fire department was dispatched to the scene at 2:30 a.m. and arrived at 2:42 a.m., said spokesman Mark Brady.

Taylor was pronounced dead on the scene. His body has been sent to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy.

On Tuesday, police were still awaiting toxicology reports, accident analysis and an investigators' report to provide further details about the crash of both cars and Taylor's death.

"We don't have an indication of substances he was on, if any," Baxter said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Prince George's County Police Department's Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit at 301-731-4422.